Corpus Based Validation of WordNet Using Frequency Parameters

In this paper we define a set of frequency parameters to be used in synset validation based on corpora. These parameters indicate the coverage of the corpus by wordnet literals, the importance of one sense of a literal in comparison to the others, as well as the importance of one literal in a synset in comparison to other literals in the same synset. The obtained results can be used in synset refinement, as well as in information retrieval tasks.